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clapera

1 clapera, ~ia [cf. OF clapier] , ‘clapper’, hutch or enclosure for rabbits. 1288 in vijxxxix perticis de una fovea claudendis circa novum cuniculare ‥; in c plantulis emptis ad idem fossatum ‥; in una veteri rota empta pro ~iis faciendis in eodem ‥; in ~is faciendis ‥ MinAc 840/5; 1305 ~iis pro cuniculis Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/61 (High Clere) ; 1441 solut’ pro factura unius ~e facte in le Ferne ‥ pro cuniculis inde nutriendis (MinAc Spelsbury, Oxon) Ditchley Pps..
2 clapera, ~um [ME] , clapper of bell. 1323 fabro pro factura j ~e ad magnam campanam que vocatur Baunce Sacr. Ely II 28; 1348 in vadiis j fabri et garcionis sui faciencium claper’ et alia pertinencia pro iij campanis KR Ac 462/16 f. 5; 1469 Johanni Smythe pro factura j ~i pro secunda campana et pro ferro suo Ac. Churchw. Sal. 11; 1500 in una clepra de quarta campana reparanda Ac. Churchw. Glast. 336.

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